Aaron Ward
2nd degree connectionUX Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California
I'm a software engineer who enjoys thinking about user experience as much as solving difficult technical problems. ...
Experience
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Company Name Google
Total Duration 3 yrs 6 mos
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Title UX Engineer
Dates Employed Nov 2017 – Present
Employment Duration 11 mos
Location San Francsico
I make interactive prototypes for the Expression team. ... See more
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Title Front End Software Engineer
Dates Employed Apr 2015 – Nov 2017
Employment Duration 2 yrs 8 mos
Location San Francisco, California
iOS TL on Google Wallet ... See more
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Company Name Somos Hermanos
Total Duration 4 yrs
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Title Advisor
Dates Employed Aug 2010 – Dec 2013
Employment Duration 3 yrs 5 mos
Location Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Assessed and interviewed applicants for the 2011—2012, 2012—2013, 2013—2014 & 2014—2015 school years. ... See more
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Title Field Coordinator
Dates Employed Jan 2010 – Jul 2010
Employment Duration 7 mos
Location Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Led a group of 13 highly motivated future health care professionals in weekly topical discussions and on biweekly trips throughout Guatemala, as well as week long trips to El Salvador and Oaxaca, Mexico. Duties included the planning of trips, events, volunteer projects and lecture series/conferences for our participants. Organized volunteer projects in... See more ... See more
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Beacon Organic Chemistry Tutor
Company Name American River College
Dates Employed Jan 2013 – May 2013
Employment Duration 5 mos
Location Sacramento, California Area
Prepared teaching materials including practice problems. Organized weekly sessions and met with tutees to work through concepts and practice problems they found difficult to understand. ... See more
Education
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Hack Reactor
Field Of Study Computer Software Engineering
Dates attended or expected graduation –
Advanced Software Engineering Intensive
Volunteer Experience
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Intern
Company Name Global Health Corps
Dates volunteered Feb 2011 – May 2011
Volunteer duration 4 mos
Cause Health
Researched and identified high level contacts that could spread the word about Global Health Corps and expand our program to Latin America. In addition duties included, maintenance of the Latin American recruitment database while identifying and filling in gaps in the recruiting focus areas for Latin America and served as the primary contact for Latin America.
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Participant
Company Name Somos Hermanos
Dates volunteered Jul 2009 – Dec 2009
Volunteer duration 6 mos
Cause Education
Lived in a homestay and studied Spanish one-on-one. Became familiar with Latin American cultural, political and historical issues through weekly reading, lectures, discussions and biweekly trips. Volunteered in a variety of capacities and shadowed North and Central American doctors. The aim of Somos Hermanos is to improve the quality and access to health care for Latino populations in the US and Canada by increasing the number of bilingual, culturally competent health care providers who can effectively communicate with Latino patients.
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Nursing Assistant/Patient Companion
Company Name Hospital Rodolfo Robles Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Dates volunteered Sep 2009 – Jul 2010
Volunteer duration 11 mos
Cause Health
Helped the nursing staff in preparing medication and maintaining the facilities. Primarily served as a companion to the sick, chatting and playing board-games with the patients. As Hospital Rodolfo Robles is the only public tuberculosis hospital in Guatemala, many of the patients had to travel from all corners of the country, and in some cases from other countries, to receive prolonged treatment.
Skills & Endorsements
Recommendations
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Aaron has an keen sense of balancing the needs of a project, moving from analyzing larger structure of a project to focusing in on a focused task. He can support.
We worked together on a project using the famo.us framework to build a tool for developers who want to use famo.us for a project but want a graphical interface to quickly mock up designs. Hashing out the needs of the project that were viable within the scope of our timeframe required a strong analytical approach that Aaron was more than up to the task. He also brought an indispensable aesthetic to the project.
He was a crucial part of the team technically, and with his insights and style, the project just worked. -
Aaron worked at Famo.us as part of his Hack Reactor program group project. Aaron is a thoughtful engineer much of the team relied on to architect much of the project from the start. He also showed flashes of product intuition and understands building for other engineers. An engineer's engineer.
Accomplishments
Aaron has 6 courses 6
Courses
- Computer Organization & Systems
- Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes in the New Millennium
- Mathematical Foundations of Computing
- Programming Abstractions in C++
- Programming Methodology
- The Ethics, Methods and Pragmatics of Global Practice
Aaron has 5 projects 5
Projects
- Euler
- Famo.us WYSIWYG
- Pickle
- Vortex of Narcissism
- ng-Eocities
Aaron has 3 languages 3
Languages
- English
- Japanese
- Spanish
Aaron has 1 organization 1
Organization
- Somos Hermanos
Interests
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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University of California, Berkeley
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Google
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User Experience Group
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Rhode Island School of Design
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UC Berkeley School of Public Health Alumni
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